If you are interested in certification testing information, please click here: Nursing Assistant Certification Testing
As a Nursing Assistant, you will have the knowledge and skills necessary to provide appropriate care for the elderly and ill patients in nursing home, hospital, and home care settings. Successful completion of this course qualifies the student to sit for the state certification written skills exam.
The Nursing Assistant program has specific enrollment dates with specific student schedules being flexible. The approximate completion time is 110 hours or 1 month at 30 hours per week and maintaining 100% progress.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you are enrolling in any health occupation program, any misdemeanor or felony conviction relating to drug offenses, assault/violent crimes, sexual assault, fraud, or theft that you have on your record, will result in the college not being able to place you in a clinical or externship site. As a result, you will not be able to complete the program. See your program coordinator for more detailed information.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
- Students must be 16 years old
*Background check – $32 - Tuberculosis (TB) screening (Student is responsible for getting this test either from their personal physician, the Health Department [by appointment only] -$12, or Workmed [walk-in] – $17) (cost not included in tuition/fees at time of enrollment)
- Students are required to wear scrubs to clinicals; street clothes are allowed in class as long as student follows a professional dress code
- Students are required to complete three 8-hour clinicals at a nursing home before completing the program
- Students will be required to pay for 86 hours of instruction as well as school fees and supplies at the time of enrollment; students can then choose a full-time or part-time schedule of at least ten hours/week; when a student completes the 86 hours, he/she may then enroll and pay for the 24 hours of clinicals
- Time in class is flexible; the enrollment limit is 25 students in the day and 20 students in the evening (choose one or the other) and availability is on a first-come, first-served basis
- If a student does not complete within the 86 hours originally purchased, he/she will be required to pay for an additional 86 hours until completion
- We recommend daytime students begin at 8:00 a.m. each day and evening students begin at 5:00 p.m. each day for skills pass off purposes
*A background check is required prior to enrollment for all students enrolling in the Nursing Assistant program. The background check and drug screen are paid for at the time of enrollment.
ENROLLMENT INFORMATION
Day classes are taught Monday-Friday from 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
01/17/12 (20 adults only)
01/23/12 (5 high school only)
01/24/12 (5 high school only)
02/13/12
03/12/12
04/16/12
05/14/12
o6/11/12
Nights classes are taught Monday-Thursday from 5:00-9:00 p.m.:
01/09/12 (15 adults only)
01/23/12 (10 high school only)
02/27/12
04/23/12
06/11/12
*Individual student schedules are flexible.
Nursing Assistant Review and Refresher Classes – The purpose of these classes is to help students renew or acquire their CNA certification.
48-hour Review Class (40 hours of class; 8 hours clinical)
Student must be a former Ogden-Weber Tech College Nursing Assistant student with an expired certificate of no longer than ten months or not yet certified and be within ten months of completing the Nursing Assistant program.
Students must purchase the curriculum and wear scrubs; the textbook is optional and supplies are provided. No background or drug screening is required. Students can enroll at any time with the program coordinator’s approval. Students will be allowed a maximum of two weeks or 60 hours to finish the review class.
86-hour Refresher Class
Student must be a former student of any nursing assistant program in the state of Utah other than the tech college with an expired certificate of no longer than ten months or not yet certified within ten months of completing a nursing assistant program in the state of Utah.
Students  must purchase the curriculum and wear scrubs; the textbook is optional and supplies are provided. No background check is required. Students can enroll at any time with the program coordinator’s approval. Students will be allowed a maximum of four weeks or 120 hours to finish the refresher class.
Note: If a student fails two tests or the same test twice, the program coordinator may require the student to complete the 110-hour Nursing Assistant course including all clinicals.
Employer Advisory Team
- Aspen Care Center
- Applegate Home Care and Hospice
- Crestwood Nursing and Rehab
- Hearts for Hospice
- Lomond Peak Care and Rehab
- Pine View Transitional Rehab
- Wasatch Care Center
Externship Sites
- Aspen Care Center
- Crestwood Care Center
- Lomond Peak Care and Rehab
- Peach Tree Assisted Living
- Pine View Transitional Rehab
- Veteran’s Nursing Home (Ogden)
- Wasatch Care Center
- Washington Terrace Health and Rehab
Your Instructor(s)
Marta Jones 801-612-4176 jonesm@owatc.edu
